GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL & OTHERS
Handel's Queens Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan / London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham [ Signum / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "This soundly made programme is both pleasing and intriguing." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Recital |
Mary Lattimore
Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 [ Ghostly International / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album Silver Ladders (a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist and composer Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart release, Collected Pieces:... |
Peter, Paul & Mary
Peter, Paul & Mary [ Hallmark / CD - released 25/Feb/2014 ] Formed in 1961 by Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, the trio rose to become one of the most successful folk groups of the 1960s and at the forefront of the folk explosion of the same decade. Whilst the group were effectively manufactured... |
Alan Jackson, Statler Brothers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Mac Davis & more
Ultimate Country [ Sony Music / 4 CD Box Set - released 3/Aug/2009 ] This four disc set can legitimately call itself the Ultimate Country Album. With country stars like Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Statler Brothers, Charlie Daniels, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones & Tammy Wynette, etc |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Macbeth / The Tempest / Marmion Overture Mary Bevan (soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Simon Callow (speaker) / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2018 ] "The BBC Concert Orchestra play with warmth and style, the BBC Singers go at it with spirit and Mary Bevan makes an enchanting Ariel. John Andrews does an excellent job of integrating the orchestra with Simon Callow's spoken chunks of Shakespeare" |
CONSTANT LAMBERT / LORD BERNERS
The Film Music of (Incls 'Anna Karenina' & 'Nicholas Nickelby') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba (with Mary Carewe, soprano) [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic deliver for these few Constant Lambert and Lord Berners scores one of the best albums in the Chandos Film Music series." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H. A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 6 Eugene List, Mary-Louise Boehm, Abbott Ruskin (piano) / Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Vox Box / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] This series presents some of the concertos written by performing virtuoso/composers of the Romantic tradition of piano playing. |
Bill Fay & Mary Lattimore
Love Is The Tune (7") [ Dead Oceans / 7in - released 6/May/2022 ] 'My friend Max introduced me to Bill Fay's records when we worked in a record store together in Philly over a decade ago. His songs have kept me company on many long drives and have soundtracked lots of beautiful, quiet, kind of searching moments in... |
MITCH LEIGH
Leigh: Man of La Mancha Brian Stokes Mitchell & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio / New 2002 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] "The 2002 Revival Cast has a powerhouse performance by Brian Stokes Mitchell, who's glorious baritone has never sounded better. The supporting cast is very good, with Ernie Sabella outstanding as Sancho" Musicals101 |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRAHMS / McIVOR / MOZART / BRITTEN / LALLOUTTE / etc
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings The Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Mark Shepherd [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] A choir founded in 1123 at the England parish church St. Mary in the town of Warwick. |
Deanna Durbin, Andrew Sisters, Carmen Miranda, Ella Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frances Lanfford, Mary Martin, Judy Garland, etc
Hollywood Sings - The Girls [ Charly Records / CD - released 4/Sep/1994 ] Original recordings from the 30s and 40s |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Complete opera with full dialogue) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed; Kenneth Sandford; Mary Sansom, Philip Potter / New Symphony Orchestra of London / Isidore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1989 ] "Great diction. You get to hang onto every word....Donald Adams as Colonel Calverley is dynamic and John Reed excels as Reginald." Mel@marbecks |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Mary Bevan (sop) Joanne Lunn (sop) Clare Wilkinson (mezzo) Nicholas Mulro (ten), etc / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "Way-too-early seasonal content (sorry), but this latest release from the Dunedin Consort is too good to wait. It's surely one of the finest accounts now available of Bach's Christmas Oratorio." Guardian Five Stars |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione Lucy Crowe (Angel), Sophie Bevan (Mary Magdalene), Iestyn Davies (Mary Cleophas), Hugo Hymas (John the Evangelist), The English Concert [ Linn Records / 2 CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "Bicket and his stellar cast embrace Handel's radical approach, turning sacred figures into intensely dramatic ones. Handel gave instruments their own actor-like parts, which The English Concert deliver ravishingly." BBC Recording of Month July 22 |
VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Kaye Ballard, Ann Hampton Calloway, Tammy Grimes, Mary Cleere Haran, Dorothy Loudon, Sula, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
Les Paul & Mary Ford
Their Great Evergreens [ Fab Four / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/2010 ] 80 original hits and rarities 1950 - 1956. |
Les Paul & Mary Ford
Les Paul & Mary Ford - The Ultimate Collection [ Xtra / CD - released 24/Sep/2009 ] 30 original tracks from the legendary, innovative guitarist / inventor Les Paul and his partner, Mary Ford. |
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Songs Mary Bevan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) & David Owen Norris (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2017 ] "the powerful Tennyson cycle The Window, George Herbert's Sweet Day and many others - thanks to Norris's inspired direction - make you realise what a fine, underrated songwriter Sullivan was." Sunday Times |
DUPARC / FAURE / CHABRIER / SCHUBERT / SEVERAC / etc
Voyages Mary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "purity of tone and discreet yet telling way with words can be by turns unnerving and alluring in the Baudelaire settings… Middleton, as one might expect, is marvellously insightful, playing throughout with weight as well as grace and subtlety" Gramo |
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: The Harmonious Echo Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), David Owen-Norris (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Although most widely remembered for his operettas in partnership with W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most famous of all British composers of the nineteenth century. He was revered as a composer of oratorios, and was urged by Queen Victoria... |